Applied Data Mining

Contents

Preface v

Part I: Fundamentals

1. Introduction 3

1.1 Background 3

1.1.1 Data Mining—Defi nitions and Concepts 4

1.1.2 Data Mining Process 6

1.1.3 Data Mining Algorithms 10

1.2 Organization of the Book 16

1.2.1 Part 1: Fundamentals 17

1.2.2 Part 2: Advanced Data Mining 18

1.2.3 Part 3: Emerging Applications 19

1.3 The Audience of the Book 19

2. Mathematical Foundations 21

2.1 Organization of Data 21

2.1.1 Boolean Model 22

2.1.2 Vector Space Model 22

2.1.3 Graph Model 23

2.1.4 Other Data Structures 26

2.2 Data Distribution 27

2.2.1 Univariate Distribution 27

2.2.2 Multivariate Distribution 28

2.3 Distance Measures 29

2.3.1 Jaccard distance ...